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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! When you’re asked out on your first date since you’ve been in Italy, you’re excited, but you wonder what Italian dating traditions are like. After all, the most famous Italian romancer of all time, Casanova, doesn’t exactly have a stellar reputation. Will your Italian date be a perfect gentleman, or will he be something…else? You’ll have to go on this dating adventure to find out!

In this lesson, you will learn how to use the Italian modal verbs dovere in the passato prossimo (”perfect tense”). This conversation takes place in the university cafeteria between two girlfriends. Since they are close, they will be speaking informal Italian. We’ll also give you some tips on how to avoid a terrible date while you’re in Italy. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! When you express doubt in Italian about your ability to get everything done on time, your friends encourage you to keep thinking positive. After all, where there’s a will, there’s a way, they tell you in Italian. They also dangle a carrot in front of you: if you finish your work on time, they’ll take you to the Italian lightbulb museum!

In this lesson, you will learn how to use the Italian modal verbs volere and potere in the passato prossimo (”perfect tense”). This conversation takes place in Piazza Duomo (”Duomo Square”) in Milan in the afternoon. The conversation is between two friends. Since the speakers are friends, they will be speaking informal Italian. We’ll also tell you about some unusual Italian museums that you may not be familiar with. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! On your study abroad trip to Italy, you and your classmates have eaten your way up and down the boot as you have learned about Italian art and culture. Somehow, you’ve also managed to remain the same size, which makes shopping in all the Italian boutiques so much easier! Of course, you’ve also achieved the main point of the trip: you’ve picked up the subtleties of the Italian language and grammar as you ventured around the nation. On the last day of your Italian trip, you and your friends get together for one final celebration of Italian acquaintances, food, and wine. One friend toasts in Italian, “To a remarkable summer!” Another friend toasts in Italian, “To a beautiful country!” You add in Italian, “To the Italian language, for making this trip possible. Thank goodness we decided not to major in the sciences!”

Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Absolute Beginner lesson will tell you how to distinguish between when you need to use the imperfetto and the passato prossimo Italian verb tenses. We’ll also tell you how to describe a “look” someone gives you in Italian. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Does life get any better? You spent all day today shopping all over Italy…anywhere you wanted to go! You were supposed to take your best friend in Italy along, but for some reason she never showed up. However, you can’t be late! You’ll just pick her up an Italian couture blouse and she will never mention it again! Well, at least you thought so! You must have lost cell phone coverage at some point today…you have seven voicemails from your Italian friend! She says she has looked all over Italy for you and asks in Italian why you didn’t wait for her! You explain very quickly in Italian, “while you were looking for her, you saw a sale on an Italian sweater she has wanted.” So as any friend would, you stopped and bought it. Then, you explain in Italian, “while you were searching the streets for her, you found an exquisite pair of Italian earrings.” So, you bought those for her as well. Twenty minutes later, “while your extravagant web of lies has cost you almost all the expensive Italian trinkets you found shopping without your friend today, you saved a priceless friendship.”

Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will teach you how to combine the Italian passato prossimo and imperfetto tenses to convey past occurrences in formal narrations. Then we will discuss someone whom some believe to be the last great emperor of the Roman Empire-Marcus Aurelius. Visit us at ItalianPod101 where you will find other great Italian lessons and learning materials! Leave us a comment while you are there!

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Anna just came back home after a Saturday evening watching a soccer match with Peter and she is having a conversation about Peter with Elena. Anna jokingly asked about Peter’s brother again, and he didn’t seem too pleased about it. Boys are always a topic of conversation when tra ragazze…

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